Virginia Company Archives

Titles
Virginia Company Archives
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Restricted
Description

Virginia Company Archives is a collection of digitized primary sources from the archives of the Virginia Company of London, an English joint-stock company chartered to establish colonial settlements in North America. The papers document the Virginia Company’s operations, its settlement of Jamestown and the Bermudas in North America, and its dissolution, which led to Virginia becoming a royal colony.

The collection includes manuscripts, transcripts, the four-volume work The Records of the Virginia Company of London, maps, and illustrations. The original documents are from the Ferrar Papers held by Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Dates covered

1590-1790.

Resource types
Vendor
Adam Matthew Digital